city at this time is to say that we will not be conducting the 2012 ing new york city marathon. >> it's official. sunday's new york city marathon is off, canceled in the wake of hurricane sandy. i have two of the runners with me who would have run. michael weisman is a marathon veteran but his house was wiped out by sandy. michael, welcome to you. obviously you're looking forward to the race. you've run it four times before. but there's your wife and two children and house in manhattan beach, long island which was completely destroyed by sandy. the moment that happened on monday night, did you think and assume that the race would get canceled? >> i had to assume. first of all, i no longer have running shoes or running clothes to use. but the amount of devastation on our front porch which is about 10, 15 feet higher than the ground floor, and watching the water overlap our cars, transformers blowing and you're seeing people fleeing from porch to porch trying to help each other out, you're saying there's no way this marathon will occur because we can't recover from this that fast. >> when